Just as all moral virtues can be understood in terms of a general motivation for the good, all intellectual virtues may be understood in terms of a general motivation for knowledge and other kinds of high-quality cognitive contact with reality.
Aristotle can be understood as taking virtue to consist of certain emotional dispositions, acquired through habit earlier in life, and later fine tuned through the exercise of intellectual skills, 22 and Hume and Mill took an 'aversion to evil' and 'appetite to good' to be central to moral motivation.
The anti-individualist strategy would do a good job accounting for individual error, since individual inferences can be understood as mistaken in virtue of being out of line with the preferred social usage.
Despite the lack of explicit descriptions of romance elsewhere, the Bible does have one book that can be understood as extolling the virtues of romantic love, a work known as Song of Songs or The Song of Solomon.
In this way sonam (luck) can be understood as an experiential indicator of moral virtue, instead of a rather crass system of rewards and punishments for good and bad behaviour (Keown 1992).
The joining of researchers and communities to challenge health inequities through the production of 'evidence' can be understood to represent the active citizenship 'promoted by the neoliberal virtues of autonomy, responsibility and calculated prudence' (Grundy and Smith 2007).
The nutrient-availability dependence of the chemical warfare strategy can be understood from the perspective of a cost-benefit analysis, however, the adaptive virtue of the nutrient-type dependence is unclear at present.
Additionally, Guignon (2004: 151) aims to identify the manner in which authenticity can be understood as being at the same time a personal and a "fundamentally and irreducibly" social virtue.
As one of his biographers put it, "The whole thrust of Prince's art can be understood in terms of a desire to escape the social identities thrust upon him by simple virtue of his being small, black, and male".
By virtue of its intense and ever-changing shows, its obsessive fan base and the premium it places on spontaneity, Umphrey's McGee can be understood as a jam band, and one of the best.
